Navajo code talkers used their language to devise a code that helped America win WWII. Many Native American children were punished for speaking their native tongues. The code talkers' legacy is an ...

Navajo code talker John Kinsel, Sr. celebrated a major milestone earlier this year — his 106th birthday. Who were the World War II Navajo Code Talkers? During World War II, the U.S. Marines selected a ...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. ­– In a news release from the office of the Navajo Nation President, a proclamation was signed Wednesday, Aug. 14 to declare the date as Navajo Code Talker Day. Navajo President Buu ...

Aug. 14 is Navajo Code Talkers Day, a date President Ronald Reagan dedicated in 1982 to "all members of the Navaho Nation and to all Native Americans who gave their special talents and their lives so ...

When Peter McDonald, Fleming Begaye and Thomas Begay joined the elite fraternity of Navajo Code Talkers during World War II, they had no idea what they were getting into. That was by design. The ...

NMAI copy 39088019930726 Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. NMAI copy 39088019930726 signed by author. "Thanks to the 2002 Hollywood film Windtalkers, the Navajo code talkers of World War II emerged ...

Frank Sanache, the last of the “code talkers” from the Meskwaki Indian tribe, died Saturday in Tama, Iowa. He was 86. Sanache was among the “elite eight,” a group of Meskwakis trained to use their ...

(Tribune News Service) — A group of Native American soldiers deployed their unique language skills to prevent German and Japanese code breakers from deciphering American military communications during ...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Kenji Kawano was hitchhiking on the Navajo Nation when Carl Gorman pulled over to give him a lift. During the drive, Kawano, then 23, explained that he’d arrived in the U.S. two ...

Written with code talker scholar Schiess Avila, Nez's fascinating memoir details his experience as one of the original 29 "code talkers"%E2%80%94a group of Native ...

One of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers in the United States, Samuel Sandoval, has died. He was 98. During World War II, Sandoval was a Navajo Code Talker who transmitted messages using his ...